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Alibaba earnings miss sharpens AI tension
Read the full story: Alibaba earnings miss sharpens AI tensionAlibaba missed forecasts as profits slumped despite stronger cloud growth. The results revived a wider market question: how long investors will keep rewarding AI narratives when core commerce remains under pressure.
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Adobe’s succession challenge arrives in the middle of an AI reset

Succession looks different when the business model is shifting underneath. Adobe’s handover arrives with strong results, expanding AI products, and clear investor unease about monetisation, competition, and pace, making the search for a successor less a question of continuity than of how much reinvention a mature software company can absorb.







